Synopsis

Ghosts and gangsters come together in Canadian director Guy Maddin's surreal, noir-ish thriller, loosely based on Homer's 'Odyssey'. On a rainswept night, a group of on-the-run gangsters rendezvous at the large rambling house belonging to their leader, Ulysses Pick (Jason Patric). Arriving in the company of a blind woman, Denny (Brooke Palsson), Ulysses soon finds his leadership is questioned and tensions within the group quickly rise. As he sets out to find his wife Hyacinth (Isabella Rossellini), who is locked in a room on an upper floor, he embarks on a personal odyssey through the house, reality and dreams merging as he attempts to find a way through the maze of rooms, confronting ghosts and obstacles from his past at every turn.